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to the u.s. when the u.s. at least in part of the us is now has a different status. goes on to say that i believe this obliges us to rethink the relationship in regards to security this is an unforeseen element and this frustration is shared by leaders throughout latin america who after four decades fighting on the front lines of the u.s. government's militarized drug war are now questioning was one of the high cost of lives in places like honduras and guatemala the stakes are the most high considering how the u.s. drug enforcement agency or the da a u.s. taxpayer funded entity regularly conducts raids and targeted killings of foreign nationals under a cloak of impunity so check this out and recent years the u.s. has been sponsored coups in both. paraguay and continues to fund their notoriously corrupt police and military forces in countries like honduras the us government pours money into the into institutions that are in many ways a forefront of drug trafficking so who does this all really benefit here well it becomes a little more clear when you look at a map of u
to the u.s. when the u.s. at least in part of the us is now has a different status. goes on to say that i believe this obliges us to rethink the relationship in regards to security this is an unforeseen element and this frustration is shared by leaders throughout latin america who after four decades fighting on the front lines of the u.s. government's militarized drug war are now questioning was one of the high cost of lives in places like honduras and guatemala the stakes are the most high...
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drug enforcement agency or the da a u.s. taxpayer funded entity regularly conducts raids and targeted killings of foreign nationals under a cloak of impunity so check this out and recent years the u.s. has been sponsored coups in both and paraguay and continues to fund their notoriously corrupt police and military forces in countries like honduras the us government whores money instead into institutions that are in many ways a forefront of drug trafficking so who does this all really benefit here well it becomes a little more clear when you look at a map of u.s. bases in latin america the countries you see highlighted all host to u.s. military bases and under the pretext of helping these countries fight the narcotics industry the u.s. is continuing its historic role of using latin america for its own imperialist strategies in the same way the u.s. is bombing and setting up military strongholds in countries like yemen somalia pakistan and others on the auspices of fighting the war on terror u.s. military construction of bases
drug enforcement agency or the da a u.s. taxpayer funded entity regularly conducts raids and targeted killings of foreign nationals under a cloak of impunity so check this out and recent years the u.s. has been sponsored coups in both and paraguay and continues to fund their notoriously corrupt police and military forces in countries like honduras the us government whores money instead into institutions that are in many ways a forefront of drug trafficking so who does this all really benefit...
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government hires when the u.s. government itself was the one approving torture and creating a legal framework for it people are hurt their lives are ruined forever and all they want is justice but they won't get it because what we're left with today is a culture of impunity where our president has declared that looking forward is more important than restoring the rule of law and holding the war criminals accountable centrally what obama has done is normalize this criminality. and all of the cases and with the government just passing the buck. this missing them is just a few bad apples but when the courts are throwing out lawsuits against the people that authorize torture and abuse what we're left with is a two tiered justice system who's left to decide who's to blame but yeah i'll just forget about it we've got four more years to just look forward. to news sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tunes mission to teach m
government hires when the u.s. government itself was the one approving torture and creating a legal framework for it people are hurt their lives are ruined forever and all they want is justice but they won't get it because what we're left with today is a culture of impunity where our president has declared that looking forward is more important than restoring the rule of law and holding the war criminals accountable centrally what obama has done is normalize this criminality. and all of the...
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military contractors who claim that u.s. forces detained and tortured them in two thousand and six after they blew the whistle on their employer for illegally running guns the two have since filed a lawsuit against former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld claiming that rumsfeld himself is the one who approved of the torture of the so-called harsh interrogation techniques used on prisoners however the seventh circuit court of appeals said that they don't have the right to sue rumsfeld or anyone else in the military chain of command for that matter now as shocking as it seems for our military to torture whistleblowers who have nothing to do with the forces we're fighting against sadly this story is not unique and u.s. forces abroad operate and knew from accountability every time we hear about rape and murder torture or destruction of property it's always dismissed out of the adage war is hell well that's not good enough. take the case of don lemon a paramedic for the defense contractor kellogg brown and root a subsidiary of
military contractors who claim that u.s. forces detained and tortured them in two thousand and six after they blew the whistle on their employer for illegally running guns the two have since filed a lawsuit against former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld claiming that rumsfeld himself is the one who approved of the torture of the so-called harsh interrogation techniques used on prisoners however the seventh circuit court of appeals said that they don't have the right to sue rumsfeld or...
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you know negotiations with the u.s. government caterpillar is actually an excellent example of a corporation that is not only providing weapons to the israeli government which. and provided the israeli government but has been heavily complicit in. further and rest policies and so that's why caterpillar has been a very big target it really it in my sense u.s. corporate complicity and b. is very. i was an a baltar of the national organizer for the u.s. campaign to end the israeli occupation. quote black friday guys you know the day when mindless consumers camped out in front of stores for days on end and trample each other to death just to save a couple hundred dollars on merchandise things like this that makes me so proud to be an american check out some of the most memorable black friday moments in recent years. the holiday shopping season got off to a violent start a temporary wal-mart worker was trampled to death by shoppers eager for post thanksgiving bargains seconds after the doors opened something went dangerously
you know negotiations with the u.s. government caterpillar is actually an excellent example of a corporation that is not only providing weapons to the israeli government which. and provided the israeli government but has been heavily complicit in. further and rest policies and so that's why caterpillar has been a very big target it really it in my sense u.s. corporate complicity and b. is very. i was an a baltar of the national organizer for the u.s. campaign to end the israeli occupation....
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of u.s. government rhetoric. will go on forever the would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders so we are fully supportive of israel's right to defend itself from missiles landing on people's homes and workplaces and potentially killing civilians very predictable response from president obama reaffirming in case anyone had any doubts that the us fully supports israel's right to defend itself that just so happens that these self-defense tactics include what the israeli military calls persuasion strikes to call these strikes precise is a misnomer just to warn you this is a very graphic image but it's just one example of the civilian deaths happening at the hand of these so-called persuasion strikes ten people were killed in this one gazan home including a mother and her four children i guess those two media buildings bombed by israeli drones yesterday must have been in the way of those precise bombs meant for militants oh and by the way the home of a b.b.c. arabic journalist was al
of u.s. government rhetoric. will go on forever the would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders so we are fully supportive of israel's right to defend itself from missiles landing on people's homes and workplaces and potentially killing civilians very predictable response from president obama reaffirming in case anyone had any doubts that the us fully supports israel's right to defend itself that just so happens that these self-defense tactics include what the...
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course it is not sustainable and it will be broken just as the previous ones had and egypt and the u.s. and israel and hamas everyone will find themselves in this situation again very shortly . as israel pounds gaza with air strikes in the occupied territories palestinian protesters clashed with israeli police israeli authorities and demonstrators in various spots across the west bank in the village of. allegedly started by jewish settlers. to support palestinians in gaza. the latest israeli palestinian violence has also led to protests across the world activists and demonstrators a number of countries have rallied to decry the deaths and demand an immediate end to the fighting. pledges to raise the latest guards are offensive at the un official public reaction and ongoing coverage of the situation. on our website right now. when it comes to speaking the mind the british are finding it harder than ever to voice their opinions a campaign to overturn a stifling public order act is heating up with critics saying it denies people their basic rights of free speech. or an ounce of sense of h
course it is not sustainable and it will be broken just as the previous ones had and egypt and the u.s. and israel and hamas everyone will find themselves in this situation again very shortly . as israel pounds gaza with air strikes in the occupied territories palestinian protesters clashed with israeli police israeli authorities and demonstrators in various spots across the west bank in the village of. allegedly started by jewish settlers. to support palestinians in gaza. the latest israeli...
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israel and the u.s. both continue to defy international law ignoring nearly one hundred un security council resolutions calling for israel to and they leave occupation and keeping one point five million palestinians living in conditions nothing short of hell on earth as americans we are uniquely positioned to urge our government to act in the name of justice and to that end nobody said it better than journalist chris hedges are callous indifference to the plight of palestinians he said and the hundreds of millions of poor packed into urban slums in asia and africa as well as our own underclass means that the injustice is visited on them will be visited on us and family members we fail ourselves. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tough hard markers of big picture. wealthy british style sun. that's not on the. market why
israel and the u.s. both continue to defy international law ignoring nearly one hundred un security council resolutions calling for israel to and they leave occupation and keeping one point five million palestinians living in conditions nothing short of hell on earth as americans we are uniquely positioned to urge our government to act in the name of justice and to that end nobody said it better than journalist chris hedges are callous indifference to the plight of palestinians he said and the...
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course it is not sustainable and it will be broken just as the previous ones had and egypt and the u.s. and israel and hamas everyone will find themselves in this situation again very shortly the latest israeli palestinian violence is also enough to protest across the world activists and demonstrators in a number of countries of running to decry the deaths and demand in the media and to the crimes. plus russia pledges to raise the mater's guards are offensive of the un more efficient and public reaction and ongoing coverage of the situation both in israel and gaza but our website right now. when it comes to speaking their minds the british are finding it harder than ever to voice their opinions a campaign to overturn a stifling public order act is heating up with critics saying it denies people the basic right to free speech. reports. printer announcer the sarcastic sense of humor here in this country we love a good provoking to debate so you would think that free speech to be protected and we'd be able to sell our opinions from the rooftops right. there's a whole raft of legislation w
course it is not sustainable and it will be broken just as the previous ones had and egypt and the u.s. and israel and hamas everyone will find themselves in this situation again very shortly the latest israeli palestinian violence is also enough to protest across the world activists and demonstrators in a number of countries of running to decry the deaths and demand in the media and to the crimes. plus russia pledges to raise the mater's guards are offensive of the un more efficient and public...
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that they are embarking on a plan to wipe out all resistance to u.s. policy in the region and let's talk about why this is happening i mean we know the palestine has been for statehood november twenty ninth i think it is what what does this have to do with the offensive that we're seeing me well over twenty nine palestine solidarity day and on that day palestine is going to be bringing to the u.n. general assembly their bid for statehood which would really mean i mean that the big important thing about that is if they are granted statehood then the international criminal court has to see in this international court the allegations of war crimes and illegal settlements by the state of israel so israeli and u.s. officials tried very very hard to pressure the palestinian authority into not introducing this statehood bid and actually said if you do this we're going to punish you for it and so we're just weeks away from that statehood bed and so it's very likely that this is that punishment that they are talking about trying to prevent that from happening b
that they are embarking on a plan to wipe out all resistance to u.s. policy in the region and let's talk about why this is happening i mean we know the palestine has been for statehood november twenty ninth i think it is what what does this have to do with the offensive that we're seeing me well over twenty nine palestine solidarity day and on that day palestine is going to be bringing to the u.n. general assembly their bid for statehood which would really mean i mean that the big important...
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policy that is the big secret behind all the talk about u.s. foreign policy which you can't mention manged free media that it's retaliation on their part and so that's that's what i expose and that's where all these people you're speaking about. let's let's shift to kelly and hope i mean you like your examine you lay out fifty examples of u.s. military cia interventions sense of world war two i mean and what you were just saying you know how they don't put it into context they don't explain the historical significance of these interventions when work when we're hearing about the wars and they sell the wars to us phyllis bennis from the institute for policy studies said something very interesting recently about perception and she said history can be determined when you start the clock of course she was referring to the establishment given you know starting with the palestinian israeli conflict just a couple weeks ago you know with the rockets being fired without of course giving this long struggle of intervention why you know why do you think th
policy that is the big secret behind all the talk about u.s. foreign policy which you can't mention manged free media that it's retaliation on their part and so that's that's what i expose and that's where all these people you're speaking about. let's let's shift to kelly and hope i mean you like your examine you lay out fifty examples of u.s. military cia interventions sense of world war two i mean and what you were just saying you know how they don't put it into context they don't explain the...
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provided arms to u.s. backed dictators etc and in that context. the work of pro israeli lobbies the traditional jewish lobby the newer christian zionist lobby has all of that influence began to to join it intersected with the strategic value that israel was starting to have for the pentagon for the congress so you have this intersection of the political in the strategic then when the cold war is over all of a sudden the political part remains and it becomes very hard to sort of say well israel is just one more ally that we should change how we relate to it now because it's a different world it is shaping it's all part of shaping the narrative but i wanted to go back to something that you just said in an excellent article that you just wrote in the nation you said in reference to rockets from gaza in israel using force to resist and is illegal military force in the context of a belligerent military occupation is lawful under international law can you elaborate more specifically. in years ago the general assembly took up the question of the right of
provided arms to u.s. backed dictators etc and in that context. the work of pro israeli lobbies the traditional jewish lobby the newer christian zionist lobby has all of that influence began to to join it intersected with the strategic value that israel was starting to have for the pentagon for the congress so you have this intersection of the political in the strategic then when the cold war is over all of a sudden the political part remains and it becomes very hard to sort of say well israel...
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israel and the u.s. both continue to defy international law ignoring nearly one hundred un security council resolutions calling for israel to and they leave occupation and keeping one point five million palestinians living in conditions nothing short of hell on earth as americans we are uniquely positioned to urge our government to act in the name of justice and to that end nobody said it better than journalist chris hedges are callous indifference to the plight of palestinians he said and the hundreds of millions of poor packed into urban slums in asia and africa as well as our own underclass knew that the injustices visited on them will be visited on us and family members we fail ourselves. wealthy british scientists not some expert on the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. do we speak your language i mean some of the well enough to do. with these programs an
israel and the u.s. both continue to defy international law ignoring nearly one hundred un security council resolutions calling for israel to and they leave occupation and keeping one point five million palestinians living in conditions nothing short of hell on earth as americans we are uniquely positioned to urge our government to act in the name of justice and to that end nobody said it better than journalist chris hedges are callous indifference to the plight of palestinians he said and the...
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these your headlines for wednesday november fourteenth two thousand and twelve u.s. president barack obama is reportedly looking for one point six trillion dollars and more revenue for uncle sam when he goes into those fiscal cliff negotiations on friday that's del ball what was talked about with g.o.p. leaders in the summer of two thousand and eleven according to the wall street journal so he is doubling down. and i'll bring everyone in to show that right away so we can give folks some certainty before the whole they see. we shall see about that but in the meantime the fiscal cliff is surpassed the euro zone crisis as the top concern for business leaders but was there a decision made recently that a verdant a pro longer recession for western economies and we just haven't heard much about it chris whalen senior managing director of capital partners is here with that answer and to analyze impending threats and could housing be the antidote to the fiscal cliff it has been suggested as more and more seem to believe u.s. housing. as in a recovery our guest is here for a
these your headlines for wednesday november fourteenth two thousand and twelve u.s. president barack obama is reportedly looking for one point six trillion dollars and more revenue for uncle sam when he goes into those fiscal cliff negotiations on friday that's del ball what was talked about with g.o.p. leaders in the summer of two thousand and eleven according to the wall street journal so he is doubling down. and i'll bring everyone in to show that right away so we can give folks some...
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in the media the u.s. problem could be change with air strikes and arms supplies we've seen polls makers here in washington trying very hard to present the arab spring as a success story up until september washington had the revolution in libya check as a foreign policy victory for president obama after all the u.s. provided most of the firepower which led to the capture and the killing of moammar gadhafi only after the tragic attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi and the murder of the american ambassador there come back into a spotlight and the chaos that we see there now flies in the face of that success story narrative protests frequently disrupt operations at the main oil refinery in western libya while the new government in libya has little or no control over the numerous militia groups the civil war has left the country shredded to pieces with radical islamic taking advantage of the chaos so many in the post-revolutionary north african countries despair and violence have replaced the hopes of the
in the media the u.s. problem could be change with air strikes and arms supplies we've seen polls makers here in washington trying very hard to present the arab spring as a success story up until september washington had the revolution in libya check as a foreign policy victory for president obama after all the u.s. provided most of the firepower which led to the capture and the killing of moammar gadhafi only after the tragic attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi and the murder of the...
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u.s. society is definitely becoming a lot more socially liberal we know that according to a gallup poll house of american support same sex marriage so if the system were to work somewhat differently for example the u.s. were to throw federal referendum it's quite possible that this issue would just become a non-issue all together. on a federal basis instead of being decided on a state by state level but still this is a big big through because right now what we have is a total of nine states plus washington d.c. that have legalized same sex marriage and this is certainly a very big one fifth of the country and definitely with this new kind of hope that this vote has brought for for advocates it's definitely something that's not going away and definitely something that's going to continue developing and. become more of a solution really in the years to come and this is something that we would never have seen see even a decade ago. you brought up polls i mean a lot of young people also consid
u.s. society is definitely becoming a lot more socially liberal we know that according to a gallup poll house of american support same sex marriage so if the system were to work somewhat differently for example the u.s. were to throw federal referendum it's quite possible that this issue would just become a non-issue all together. on a federal basis instead of being decided on a state by state level but still this is a big big through because right now what we have is a total of nine states...
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well following the vote both israel and the u.s. tried to downplay its significance washington's amboy to the u.n. susan rice the palestinian hopes are doomed to failure as recognition by the u.n. won't change anything on the ground today's grand pronouncements will soon fade and the palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has changed today's vote should not be misconstrued by any as constituting eligibility for u.n. membership it does not this resolution does not establish that. there is a state. ramsey baroud added to her and palestine chronicle dot com says washington's middle east rhetoric is outdated and the un vote shows the u.s. risks possible isolation because of its unflinching support for israel. what hillary clinton has actually said can only be understood within the old context the us is an evil to get out of the rot it's political rot of many years partly the united states its is stuck in its own foreign policy of all it is incapable of adapting to a new middle east to the so-call
well following the vote both israel and the u.s. tried to downplay its significance washington's amboy to the u.n. susan rice the palestinian hopes are doomed to failure as recognition by the u.n. won't change anything on the ground today's grand pronouncements will soon fade and the palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has changed today's vote should not be misconstrued by any as constituting eligibility for u.n. membership it does not this resolution...
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seeking revenge for decades and decades of u.s. hostile actions in the middle east and i give you a long list of those in my book which you read so i think that's the reason he left to go because it it shows that the even though i have no sympathy for them it shows that they were not simply mind this crazed people why do you think the establishment is so close to even acknowledging the low back i mean we hear ron paul being demonized and even just bring it up and hear them kind of you know criticizing you in the promise of even asking his questions and why. they show their wars to to america on the grounds that these people out there that we bomb and kill have no good reason for hating us or unless they're just jealous of success jealous of freedom you know there's never any mention that it's retaliation for for us. policy that is the big secret behind all the talk about u.s. foreign policy which you can't mention manged free media that it's retaliation on their part and so that's that's what i expose and that's what all these peop
seeking revenge for decades and decades of u.s. hostile actions in the middle east and i give you a long list of those in my book which you read so i think that's the reason he left to go because it it shows that the even though i have no sympathy for them it shows that they were not simply mind this crazed people why do you think the establishment is so close to even acknowledging the low back i mean we hear ron paul being demonized and even just bring it up and hear them kind of you know...
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whether the u.s. blindly backs israel or follows yahoo into a military conflict with iran i think that remains to be seen but i would say that the sanctions policies that we've seen the pressure policies some of the lack of flexibility in being able to negotiate has been driven by the influence of hawkish pro israel lobbies in congress and here in washington and that. you know for the u.s. and frankly for israel if that is not a policy that is is beneficial to their interests at the end of the day we're faced with either a diplomatic resolution to this standoff or we see the escalating pressure the escalating antagonism that cannot survive indefinitely that eventually is going to reach a tipping point and whether it's deliberate or it's accidental we're going to end up in a war. and you can also catch up more news online including losing lives for the big screen while thousands cheer of the much anticipated film premiere all of the hobbit activists claim not all the animals survived the filming lord m
whether the u.s. blindly backs israel or follows yahoo into a military conflict with iran i think that remains to be seen but i would say that the sanctions policies that we've seen the pressure policies some of the lack of flexibility in being able to negotiate has been driven by the influence of hawkish pro israel lobbies in congress and here in washington and that. you know for the u.s. and frankly for israel if that is not a policy that is is beneficial to their interests at the end of the...
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and seeing what u.s. policy looks like on the ground when it supports the israeli regime when it supports the israeli military and seeing how how u.s. . u.s. military aid to palestine. is israel is is wreaking havoc upon the people when you go to gaza and you see how many homes have been demolished and how kids aren't getting the services and you know the humanitarian aid that they need to survive the holy land foundation was able to to fill in the gaps absolutely and it is just such an enormous hypocrisy nor when you look at you know feeding palestinian kids and even if they were giving money to hamas i mean look at that the government taking any k. called off the state department terror terrorist list i mean and you have lawmakers receiving tens of thousands of dollars to speak on behalf of that i mean it's just such an astounding hypocritical line coming from this government but it really does always come back to israel i mean you know there was this huge poll from sharon that was swaying the case from
and seeing what u.s. policy looks like on the ground when it supports the israeli regime when it supports the israeli military and seeing how how u.s. . u.s. military aid to palestine. is israel is is wreaking havoc upon the people when you go to gaza and you see how many homes have been demolished and how kids aren't getting the services and you know the humanitarian aid that they need to survive the holy land foundation was able to to fill in the gaps absolutely and it is just such an...
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while the u.s. support for israel in its disputes with palestine seems unflinching when it comes to other regional matters washington must learn to say no test for a statesman speaking of brezinski. not good. decisions. more of why he thinks america's friendships should be limited just ahead of the program. further escalation of the crisis in egypt the country stop judiciary have gone strong to protest president morsi decree that greatly enlarged his power more says move set off a nationwide wave of violence rallies with tens of thousands of egyptians calling for the islamist leader to stand down journalist bell true has the latest from cairo. we've had to the choir is made to cool the country's major chords the constitutional court and the appeals court say they are going to strike of course the judges themselves are also still on a partial strike the journalists in the case and their own so who for a strike to seeing really quite a lot of movement that the major sectors within egypt society and wh
while the u.s. support for israel in its disputes with palestine seems unflinching when it comes to other regional matters washington must learn to say no test for a statesman speaking of brezinski. not good. decisions. more of why he thinks america's friendships should be limited just ahead of the program. further escalation of the crisis in egypt the country stop judiciary have gone strong to protest president morsi decree that greatly enlarged his power more says move set off a nationwide...
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news continues now the u.s. campaign in afghanistan and suffer the military grade blow with at least two celebrity generals and veterans of the intervention for grace a sex scandal that started with revelations of the ex cia chief having an affair has now claimed the reputation of the current afghan campaign commander obviously she cannot explain. in the papers here in afghanistan for transit star and battlefield felled at cia by an affair this situation the reaction on the ground has been one of outrage people are really quite confused by this whole scandal one of the comments that i heard from a person who wish to be anonymous in the foreign ministry is office was they founded really indicative of how well the afghan war effort is going in terms of u.s. policy if the top general in charge of it had time to send twenty to thirty thousand pages worth of inappropriate e-mails people here have also expressed some confusion as to why these kinds of scandals would force these top men to resign and not for example th
news continues now the u.s. campaign in afghanistan and suffer the military grade blow with at least two celebrity generals and veterans of the intervention for grace a sex scandal that started with revelations of the ex cia chief having an affair has now claimed the reputation of the current afghan campaign commander obviously she cannot explain. in the papers here in afghanistan for transit star and battlefield felled at cia by an affair this situation the reaction on the ground has been one...